2021 Giving Report: Enabling Access to Andrew’s

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE FOR YOUR GENEROUS SUPPORT IN 2021 FOR PHILANTHROPY, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, OUR STUDENTS.

This past year has seen an incredible level of support from our community, despite the continued challenges we all faced as a result of the global pandemic. More than 155 parents, alumni, families and friends of St Andrew’s College made new gifts and new pledges that when combined, total $1.2 million!

This is the equivalent of funding 35 full scholarships for one year, creating 24 new bedrooms or 12 new tutorial or music rooms. We are now closer than ever to reaching our overall goal of $7M and hope to do this by the end of 2022.

Our Annual Giving Appeal in 2021 focused on increasing support for those most in need by raising funds for means-tested scholarships specifically for Indigenous students, students from rural and regional areas and Government school backgrounds. We received wonderful support from alumni and parents and raised over $110,000 for these scholarships through this appeal. Because of our community’s support, we will be able to provide more deserving students the College experience in 2022. Scholarships and bursaries were the key focus for our community in 2021 and the College received $1,043,700 in combined gifts towards scholarships this year. A further $255,000 was also pledged for future scholarship funds.

We have continued to partner with a number of alumni, parents and friends of the College to establish multiple new named, means-tested scholarships in 2021. Thanks to a generous gift from the Eldon D Foote Foundation, we have been able to establish the perpetual St Andrew’s College Rural & Regional Scholarship Fund – which is the first endowed fund of its kind in the St Andrew’s College Foundation.

Other new scholarships established in 2021 included the Cairns Indigenous Scholarship to assist Northern Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, The Vielun Pastoral Company Scholarship to support rural & regional students, and the James P G Foundation Scholarship, established in memory of James Patterson Gardner to provide young New Zealanders studying engineering (aeronautical) the opportunity to live at College and study in Sydney, and hence realise their potential.

We are also grateful to Tony Damian and the Mostyn Family for deciding to extend and continue their existing scholarships, which have provided significant support to a number of students in recent years.

The College was the beneficiary of a bequest received from the late Geoffrey Bernays (Fr 1946), who was a long term supporter of rural and regional scholarships. His gift will be directed into the new St Andrew’s College Rural & Regional Scholarship Fund, so that he may continue to support these students long into the future.

In support of the new Thyne Reid Link Building and other capital works projects, the College received $270,015 in pledges and new gifts. Many parents also made voluntary building fund donations throughout the year, allowing us to continue with ongoing building maintenance across the campus.

A further $19,225 was gifted towards the College’s General Fund, to be used

as needed across all of these projects. We thank everyone for their incredibly generous support.

We are well aware that giving back can take many different forms, and there are many in our community who are also generous with their time. We thank all of the alumni, parents and friends of the College who have volunteered on committees or taken part in the various Professional Development Programs this past year. It would not be possible to run the range of events, activities and programs without your support and participation, so thank you.

Finally, I would also like to thank the Council, the Foundation Board of Management, the 1867 Circle Committee, the Alumni Society Committee, the Young Alumni Committee and our fresher reunion year and event volunteers for the valuable advice and support they offered throughout 2021. We cannot do what we do without you all.

In 2022, we will look to build on the past year’s successes and continue to seek support for the facilities and programs necessary to give our students to the St Andrew’s college experience.

Ms Hannah Atwell

Director of Advancement Executive Officer, SAC Foundation

If you would like more information on our Campaign for St Andrew’s or our philanthropy program, please get in touch via T: +61 2 9565 7303 or E: advancement@standrewscollege.edu.au

GIVING BY FUND IN 2021

OUR DONOR PROFILE IN 2021 2021 Giving Report